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Feb 25, 2013 · Margaret did everything in her power to work against the Tudor King, including supporting pretenders to the English throne like Perkin Warbeck and others. There was more civil war, truce and peace in Burgundy.
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- Cecily Neville
Margaret now moved to secure military support from her brother, Edward IV; he sent enough support to allow Mary and Maximilian to resist the French advances any further, although the Duchy itself remained lost.
It was long assumed that Margaret’s support for Yorkist exiles and pretenders was a measure of her deep loyalty to her family and especially her brother Richard. More recently it has been argued that her real motive was curbing Henry VII’s influence in order to protect Burgundy’s interests.
Dec 19, 2013 · Margaret did everything in her power to work against the Tudor King, including supporting pretenders to the English throne like Perkin Warbeck and others. There was more civil war, truce and peace in Burgundy.
Ally of Pretenders Margaret only returned to England once, in 1480, to seek military aid against France. In 1485 she refused to recognise Henry VII’s accession and paid for 2,000 mercenaries to support ‘Lambert Simnel’.
3 days ago · As a supporter of Yorkist pretenders, Margaret’s court served as a safe haven for those refusing to accept Tudor rule. Supporting financially and politically both Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck, Margaret continued to play an important role in English politics until Warbeck’s capture in 1497.
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It was she who was intent on spoiling the party for Henry VII when, so the narrative runs, the great first Tudor was frustrated in his fine purpose by the activities of those two historical oddities, the pretenders Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck.
